Ann Sabine
@annsabine.bsky.social
Small town librarian fighting the good fight in rural America. 🌈☕️📚
Being a librarian means knowing people. Sometimes it means watching your story time kids grow into wonderful kids and amazing teens, and sometimes it means watching your older patrons fade and pass. It’s an honor and a privilege to be a small presence in so many lives.
November 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Being a librarian means knowing people. Sometimes it means watching your story time kids grow into wonderful kids and amazing teens, and sometimes it means watching your older patrons fade and pass. It’s an honor and a privilege to be a small presence in so many lives.
A patron asked me “If my books are late will you put me over your knee and spank me?”.
I have been laughing about it, but it just occurred to me that it’s actually horrible and in a world where I wasn’t numbed to the harassment of men, it would not be funny at all.
I have been laughing about it, but it just occurred to me that it’s actually horrible and in a world where I wasn’t numbed to the harassment of men, it would not be funny at all.
November 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A patron asked me “If my books are late will you put me over your knee and spank me?”.
I have been laughing about it, but it just occurred to me that it’s actually horrible and in a world where I wasn’t numbed to the harassment of men, it would not be funny at all.
I have been laughing about it, but it just occurred to me that it’s actually horrible and in a world where I wasn’t numbed to the harassment of men, it would not be funny at all.
Sometimes self care is letting the dog tear up a paper bag and calling it enrichment.
July 16, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Sometimes self care is letting the dog tear up a paper bag and calling it enrichment.
I will be here until they turn off the power, or drag me off in handcuffs. I may not have much to offer, but I will keep these doors open for as long as I am physically able.
April 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I will be here until they turn off the power, or drag me off in handcuffs. I may not have much to offer, but I will keep these doors open for as long as I am physically able.
Teen at the library today asked me to DoorDash her a hamburger and then bullied another kid. Entitled and cruel. This is America.
January 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Teen at the library today asked me to DoorDash her a hamburger and then bullied another kid. Entitled and cruel. This is America.
Going on the shelf at the library today. Wish me luck.
January 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Going on the shelf at the library today. Wish me luck.
Pretty little winter salad. Roasted broccoli and red onion, fresh red cabbage, tomato and cucumber over rice with a garlic olive oil dressing.
January 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Pretty little winter salad. Roasted broccoli and red onion, fresh red cabbage, tomato and cucumber over rice with a garlic olive oil dressing.
Sometimes you just tell the obviously drunk guy who comes in asking if you let kids take out LGTB books that you don’t have any… because that’s not a thing… and you don’t want to deal with his bullshit.
July 22, 2023 at 6:44 PM
Sometimes you just tell the obviously drunk guy who comes in asking if you let kids take out LGTB books that you don’t have any… because that’s not a thing… and you don’t want to deal with his bullshit.
Setting up for our library book sale that is made up of weeded and donated books. We had so many right wing books donated I had to make a neo-fascism section.
I am also fully guilty of putting a book on conspiracy theories in with the religion books.
I am also fully guilty of putting a book on conspiracy theories in with the religion books.
July 3, 2023 at 11:10 PM
Setting up for our library book sale that is made up of weeded and donated books. We had so many right wing books donated I had to make a neo-fascism section.
I am also fully guilty of putting a book on conspiracy theories in with the religion books.
I am also fully guilty of putting a book on conspiracy theories in with the religion books.
Revising our book challenge policy and one board member is concerned that we expect a mini book report before we even consider removal of an item. The concern is that we do that so that they give up and don’t bother. Yeah…. So?
June 25, 2023 at 11:10 PM
Revising our book challenge policy and one board member is concerned that we expect a mini book report before we even consider removal of an item. The concern is that we do that so that they give up and don’t bother. Yeah…. So?
A friend (librarian) is getting death threats because they tried to hold a drag queen story hour. Staff are being harassed. Comments on articles like “line them up and blindfold them. Protect the kids.”
This is the front lines. Where is my body armor? All I have is a flag pin and a name tag.
This is the front lines. Where is my body armor? All I have is a flag pin and a name tag.
June 24, 2023 at 11:58 AM
A friend (librarian) is getting death threats because they tried to hold a drag queen story hour. Staff are being harassed. Comments on articles like “line them up and blindfold them. Protect the kids.”
This is the front lines. Where is my body armor? All I have is a flag pin and a name tag.
This is the front lines. Where is my body armor? All I have is a flag pin and a name tag.
The look parents give me when I tell them “reading is reading” in response to their personal vendetta against graphic novels…
June 23, 2023 at 4:30 PM
The look parents give me when I tell them “reading is reading” in response to their personal vendetta against graphic novels…
Being a liberal librarian in a small Conservative village is as close to being in the CIA as I am ever going to get.
June 23, 2023 at 2:07 AM
Being a liberal librarian in a small Conservative village is as close to being in the CIA as I am ever going to get.